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The Porter County Plan Commission seeks to repeal a 2020 ordinance which allowed solar farms to

A unanimous eight-member vote by the Porter County Plan Commission at a special meeting Wednesday is the first step for revising and recommending a new ordinance for solar projects in Porter County.

The Porter County Plan Commission will hear a recommendation Wednesday evening from a special subcommittee of its members on whether to revise, repeal and replace, or do nothing with the county’s three-year-old solar amendment in the wake of roiling controversy surrounding the Malden Solar project proposed by NextEra Energy Resources.

Essentially what St. Andrews Development proposes is to slide the border between the two zones to the south to allow the new homes to be built.

Ashly Gajda said a pole barn on her property is almost complete and would include temperature-controlled rooms for the heat- and cold-sensitive animals, and traffic to her home would be at a minimum.